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The absence of women's scientific contributions in core UK pre‐university science qualifications

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite their groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the natural world and the universe, women's roles in biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, environmental science and geology remain largely absent from standard educational specifications in the United Kingdom (UK), particularly at Key Stage 4 (KS4) and Key Stage 5 (KS5), or ...
G. J. Cooke   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growth, inequality, and poverty in Latin America: historical evidence, controlled conjectures. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
How have growth and inequality affected poverty reduction in Latin America over the long run? On the basis of the available evidence on growth and inequality tentative answers and conjectures are proposed about the long run evolution of poverty in Latin ...
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro
core   +1 more source

The electric revolution in Latin America [PDF]

open access: yes
Latin America participated in the electric revolution which profoundly transformed the most developed Western economies between 1880 and 1930. The electrification of Latin America began relatively soon after these economies, but it was incapable of ...
Xavier Tafunell
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Latin America’s Transformative New Extraction and Local Conflicts

open access: yes, 2015
Subterranean Struggles: New Dynamics of Mining, Oil, and Gas in Latin America, edited by Anthony Bebbington and Jeffrey Bury. University of Texas Press, 2013.Unearthing conflict: Corporate Mining, Activism, and Expertise in Peru, by Fabiana Li.
Hogenboom, Barbara; CEDLA - Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation
core   +1 more source

Publishing the History of Radical Science in a Time of Digital Capitalism

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This paper investigates publishing as a practice in the history of science. It firstly provides an experiential account of building a DIY‐inspired publishing venue for collective, source‐based narration. The venue used the possibilities of digital publishing to apply, rather than simply refer to, a very striking aspect of radical science in the 1970s ...
Niki Rhyner
wiley   +1 more source

Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cheiro bom, cheiro ruim – On bodies, senses, and social classifications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Bodies and borders in Latin America, 8th workshop of Haina – Nordic Network for Gender Studies in Latin America, August 2010.Degraded Objects, Disposable People: On Garbage, Social Inequality, Consumption and Citizenship among Urban Women in Southeastern
Machado-Borges, Thaïs
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Goal Displacement and Goal Conflicts in Circular Innovation Initiatives: Types and Mitigation Practices

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Many firms set ambitious sustainability goals but these are frequently “displaced” by proxy goals that are easier to track and measure. However, the specific types of goal conflicts that follow from this displacement are poorly understood. We conducted a case study of circular innovation initiatives at a global MedTech company and identified ...
Wiebke Reim   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early medieval vernacular Celtic glosses: originals or translations?  A case study on the Vienna Bede

open access: yesOpen Research Europe
This study investigates the Old Irish glossing tradition on the Venerable Bede’s De Temporum Ratione, a computistical work from the early eighth century.
Bernhard Bauer
doaj   +1 more source

Some predicative datives in late Latin

open access: yesArchivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi, 1925
J. H. Baxter. Some predicative datives in late Latin. In: Archivum Latinitatis Medii Aevi, tome 2, 1925. pp. 85-88.
openaire   +2 more sources

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